Subway Lunch and Eggplant Parm Dinner with Friends

Since Joe made breakfast, at lunch time, I took a quick break from my computer and ran out...

…and got us a foot-long club on wheat from subway to split. I served it with some fresh cut fruit and some of those great Corazona’s Parmesan Peppercorn chips I was telling you about on Tuesday.

We are having some friends over for dinner tonight, so for an appetizer, I made some of my heirloom tomato bruschetta (I’ll share the recipe with you, if you’d like), which I served on top of some rosemary bread toasted and spread with goat cheese.

For dinner, I used some of the fresh eggplants from our CSA basket to make my healthier version of a traditional eggplant parmesan and we served it with salads topped with my made over Caesar dressing.

I wanted to have water to drink, but that sounded boring. So I served the Ferrarelle Sparkling Water that I received a sample of recently. It’s Italy’s only naturally sparkling mineral water. Not only does it make a healthy meal a little more special, it also has some great health benefits because it contains calcium, potassium, bicarbonate (which can help facilitate digestion), and Silica (which can help delay the aging process of tissue). It was truly a great addition to our meal!

For dessert I made a chocolate-cheese ball, which is made with reduced-fat cream cheese, some powdered sugar, pecans, and mini-chocolate chips. You serve it with cookies or little graham cracker sticks like we did here for dipping. It’s delicious!